They can’t dominate with Xbox so they pivot to this. Just like when Windows’s hammerlock on personal computing started faltering (mainly due to mobile, on which they fumbled the ball) they pivoted to “We <3 open source!”

They’re gonna embrace, extend, and extinguish gaming on other platforms.

If you want a VS Code-like experience with no effort, you know where to find VS Code.

You use Emacs for an Emacs-like experience – that is, a reasonable starting point, but with infinite customizability, to the point where you are modifying and extending your editor as you work with it.

You can begin coding in Python, Go, and Bash today with no additional add-ons. You may have a tough time of it at first if you’re used to relying on autocomplete. Generally the first must-have package you should get is the major mode for whatever language you’re working in (if it doesn’t already come with Emacs). I generally use ivy to provide completion for things like file and buffer names, M-x commands, etc. so that’s also a good choice. Eglot or lsp-mode is commonly used to provide autocomplete via Visual Studio Code’s LSP.

Finally I recommend enabling auto-revert-mode, so that Emacs keeps itself automatically in sync with changes made to a file outside itself. This is built into Emacs.

Yeah, t and nil are self-evaluating symbols in Lisps that use them, like Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp. Don’t sweat it, just keep that in mind.